adobe flash plugin hangs when asking for video/audio permission [latest 13.04]

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh]

In both Chromium and Firefox, and on more than one website (I was trying web meeting software, including openmeetings and one commercial service that is entirely web-based), the web page hangs when a little window pops up to ask about permission to access the video camera and microphone. The accept and reject buttons do nothing, and the page is unresponsive. Killing the tab does close the page.

It seems I cannot use flash-based interfaces to my video and microphone.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.275ubuntu0.12.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 3 13:35:28 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-18 (15 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130318)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

One (evenlessfree) workaround is to use Google Chrome rather than Chromium or Firefox.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.